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Definition of Precessional
1. a. Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
Definition of Precessional
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to precession ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precessional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precessional
Literary usage of Precessional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Natural Philosophy by William Thomson Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait (1888)
"This we shall call positive precessional rotation. ... To this case also belongs
the precessional motion of the earth's axis; for which the angle a = 23° ..."
2. Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell (1842)
"... fluidity not proved by spheroidal figure of the earth — Attempt to calculate
the thickness of the solid crust of the earth by precessional motion — Heat ..."
3. Cause and Effect, Or, The Globe We Inhabit by Richard George Mackley Browne (1868)
"That alteration in the situation of the nodes or equinoctial points is occasioned
by the precessional motion in question. HI. The recognized explanations of ..."
4. Lessons on Rigid Dynamics by George Pirie (1875)
"precessional MOTION. 1. WE have, in these introductory Lessons, avoided the more
complicated phenomena of motion. ..."
5. Primary Phenomenal Astronomy for Teachers and General Readers: How to Study by Frederick Harold Bailey (1886)
"On page 37 was given an anachronism of Shakespeare, due to his not understanding
the precessional movement. Many similar blunders might be given, ..."
6. The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena by Cargill Gilston Knott (1908)
"It is well known that a rigid body of the size, figure, and mass of the earth
will have a small precessional motion of period 305 days if the axis of figure ..."
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